Please join Dr. Boyd for a conversation about the NCAA’s March Madness, who makes mad money with/through Black bodies, student-athlete health matters during COVID-19, and the possibilities for athlete activism.  Dr. Todd Boyd, a.k.a. “Notorious Ph.D.,” is the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Dr. Boyd is a media commentator, author, producer, consultant and scholar. He is especially well known for appearing as a commentator in numerous documentaries. Some recent appearances include The Last Dance (ESPN/Netflix), The Movies (CNN, 2019), I Am Richard Pryor (Paramount Network/Comedy Central, 2019), Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me (American Masters/PBS, 2019), and Shut Up and Dribble (Showtime, 2018). Dr. Boyd was Executive Producer of the Netflix documentary, At All Costs: Life Inside AAU Basketball (2016), and he was writer/producer on the Paramount Pictures celebrated cult classic film The Wood (1999). He has written over one hundred articles, essays, reviews, and other forms of commentary, with his work having appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune and ESPN, among other publications. Dr. Boyd’s seven books include, The Notorious Ph.D's Guide to the Super Fly 70s, Young Black Rich and Famous, The New H.N.I.C, and Am I Black Enough For You? Series supported by an IRA grant. For more information or to request disability accommodation, contact Lauren Morimoto at  morimoto@sonoma.edu

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